Amnesty International, US advocacy group say tribunal that opened Wednesday should lead to more international pressure on Iran, not less
The US State Department did not respond to a VOA Persian request for comment as Iran's critics pointed to its poor record on women’s rights
In VOA Persian interview, researcher Karim Dahimi said the dissidents’ relatives told him they saw the bruises on the men before their executions
The 8 allegedly communicated with Western media, educating children
In statement to VOA Persian, five jailed Dervish activists say Iran’s Islamist rulers used Sunday’s death of Behnam Mahjoubi to show they can kill opponents
In VOA Persian interview, sister of Azerbaijani Turk activist Hamed Gharehoghlani said authorities also forced him to confess to security crimes by threatening his family
In a Tuesday interview with VOA Persian from his home in Tehran, Fariborz Kalantari said he learned of prison term and his other punishments in Feb. 4 visit to local criminal court
In VOA interview, source close to family of women’s rights campaigner Saba Kord Afshari said the activist was forcibly transferred between wards of Qarchak prison Tuesday
Saeed Masouri, who marked 20 years in Iranian prisons this month, got a life sentence for supporting an exiled opposition group
In VOA Persian interview from her home in Canada, sister of Iran-based director Reza Mihandoust said authorities informed his lawyer of the prison sentence on Jan. 10
Source tells VOA Persian a court in Urmia notified Salar Taher Afhar’s lawyer of sentence on Jan. 2 after convicting the activist for joining pro-Azerbaijan protest in July 2020
In late December, five who lost loved ones in the plane crash told VOA Persian they felt Canada was not doing enough to put Iran on trial at the International Court of Justice
Lawyer tells VOA Persian he was informed Dec. 30 that a Tehran court sentenced writer Arash Ganji on national security charges that had “no relation” to Ganji’s work on book
Ali Azizi given 5-year sentence on charges of spreading anti-government propaganda and membership in illegal group, source tells VOA Persian Service
In VOA Persian interview, informed source said a court in southern city of Bandar Abbas sentenced on December 23 the six men and two women to prison terms of one to two years
In VOA Persian interview, informed source said Mehrdad Bakhtiari, uncle of slain protester Pouya Bakhtiari, learned that he received a 5-year suspended sentence on Dec. 16
In VOA Persian interview, source close to wrestler Navid Afkari’s family said authorities in southwestern Iran destroyed two walls around Akfari’s gravesite on Thursday
Source tells VOA Persian the family of women’s rights activist Saba Kord Afshari is worried about risks to her health from Dec. 9 transfer to Qarchak women’s jail
In VOA interview, informed source said lawyers for Amir Hossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeid Tamjidi plan to ask judiciary to release the men on bail when retrial begins
Lawyer Ali Sharifzadeh told VOA Persian that Iranian authorities detained his client Amir Pourang Sarmadi Tehrani at the activist’s workplace in northern city of Babolsar on Dec. 2
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